1999 Pittcon Editors' Awards
The May issue of American Laboratory published the 1999 Pittcon Editors' Awards
following an extensive review of several new product introductions by manufacturers in the
analytical instrumentation arena. In the article entitled "The Big 50 for
Pittcon," three prominent vendors were singled out and rewarded for their cutting
edge innovations. After voting on 27 individual product nominations by a committee of
distinguished editors, this is how the chips fell this year:
Pittcon Editors' Gold Award
Perkin-Elmer Sciex for their ELAN
6100 DRC ICP-MS system
Pittcon Editors' Silver Award
Bear Instruments for their Kodiak
1200 quadrupole MS-MS for both GC and HPLC
Pittcon Editors' Bronze Award
ThermoQuest for their LCQ (the
DECA is an ion trap LC-MS) system
Other vendors receiving notable mentions with significant vote totals included:
Waters Corporation (LCT with MUX (LC-MS) and the CapLC capillary LC) and Perkin-Elmer
(Q-Star LC-MS-MS).
Take the advice of the Pittcon Editors who put considerable time and effort into producing
this list of vendors that have distinguished themselves far and above the competition.
You'll have to forgive us for not noting who wasn't worthy of inclusion on this select
list for the fourth year running.... they didn't even muster a notable mention!
Expect Less Value and More Disappointment from Shimadzu
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